Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
That's simply not true. If it was, Mirror Image would be useless. Mirror Image doesn't re-direct an attack, it makes it so that you target an image. If you target the correct person 100% of the time, Mirror Image fails as a spell.Caster and martial both 'target' (mentally choose) who they are trying to affect with 100% certainty. In each case the target is 'the guy with all the images'.
Such as AOE, yes. When you have to target an individual, it requires you knowing precisely which target is the subject of the attack or spell. Mirror Image prevents any such identification.Caster and target are both equally unaffected by the images if they use a method of attack which does not require actual 'aiming' at their chosen target, and both are equally affected by the images if they use a method of attack which requires an attack roll.
Oh my goodness! You just did exactly the same thing when debating Cognomen's Cassowary! You Posted several dictionary definitions and ignored the ones that disproved your own claim!
Goodness gracious! You're wrong. Nothing there disproved my claim. The verb usage(which D&D uses) means aim at. The others such as pick out, single out, etc., are also synonyms with aim.
Here, I said, "Where you are going wrong (inadvertently or deliberately, it's hard to tell) is that you cannot or will not separate the two. You think that 'target' and 'aim at' are ALWAYS synonyms." Then, you post a list of synonyms, one of which is a synonym of a literal, physical aiming like a sniper looking down a scope, and others which do not mean that!
That's what targeting a creature is. You are aiming at that creature physically or mentally. If you can't tell who the target is, you are not going to be able to mentally aim at it unless you get lucky.
That's patently false. In every edition there have been ways to fail to target a target.D&D literally always, throughout its existence, has used 'target' to mean 'earmark' with 100% certainty, which may or may not also require physically aiming at.
The problem is that you see multiple targets and don't know which one is the creature. You have to know where you are targeting to target something. You see, in 5e there's this little thing called Specific Beats General. You keep trying to quote a general rule and say, "See, it beats the specific one you are referencing."In D&D, all that is required to 'target' a creature is that you can see the creature, you have a clear path to it, and it is within range of the thing you want to do.
If that's true, then the fighter doesn't have to roll to hit the creature. All it requires to perform an accurate attack is to have a target.Whether or not a creature has mirror image on, that creature can be seen. It looks like several copies of one creature. They literally cannot look different from each other! That is a creature you can see and 'target/earmark' for whatever you want to do, and if the thing you want to do does not require physically aiming at (attack roll) you simply do not need to know which is the real image, because you are affecting the 'creature' even if that creature has four images.